Jane_Doe - 11:19 pm on Jan 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

I did a paper in college on drug abuse in society that included interviews with the local police. One of the officers bragged during the interviews that they would pick up known small time drug dealers and put them in jail on trumped up charges overnight just to bug them. They said even if they didn't have enough evidence to make the charges stick the guys would still lose a days worth of work at their "day jobs" and had to hire lawyers to get them out. So a lot of times they could do that enough to get them fired from their jobs just to bug them even if they couldn't gather enough evidence for a conviction.

My professor wanted to take my paper to the media and I said no way. It was probably the cowards way out but I was just a college kid with a part-time minimum wage job. I was scared the police would just start harassing me like that. I didn't think my professor would get very far anyway. It was just my word against theirs and I'm sure the officer would deny everything he told me if he ever thought he was going to get in any trouble over it.